Political Activism

Psychiatrist, philosopher, and revolutionary, Frantz Fanon is one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century. He presented powerf...

On 13 November 2015, Paris suffered the second wave of brutal terrorist attacks in a year, leaving 130 dead and many more seriously injured. How ar...

Marian Alexander Spencer was born in 1920 in the Ohio River town of Gallipolis, Ohio, one year after the “Red Summer” of 1919 that saw an upsurge i...

This volume provides a much needed update on the state of civil society in post-communist Europe and Russia more than two decades after the fall of...

The reign of the Tokugawa shoguns was a time of statebuilding and cultural transformation, but it was also a period of ikki: peasant rebellion. Jam...

Marian Alexander Spencer was born in 1920 in the Ohio River town of Gallipolis, Ohio, one year after the “Red Summer” of 1919 that saw an upsurge i...

This volume explores the implementation of key gender policies in international peace and security, following the adoption of UN Security Council r...

This book presents a selection of edited essays written by leading international scholars engaging with practicing intelligence, military, and poli...

Ethnic inequalities in divided societies can exacerbate social divisions and lead to conflict. Reducing these inequalities could have a de-escalati...

Ever since President John F. Kennedy was gunned down in Dallas fifty years ago, various theories have swirled around what was a key event in Americ...

This book comes at a time when the Egyptian nation is facing deep divisions about the notion and definition of ‘revolution’. The articles here aim ...

Like the industrial revolution before it, the information technology revolution appears to be creating a new ruling class, a new economy and a new ...

In November 1963 President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. His death remains a defining moment for millions of people but few un...

Reconciliation after Terrorism brings together scholars from the hitherto disparate fields of terrorism and reconciliation studies, in order to exa...

This book opens up the discussion of the interrelation between terrorism studies, and peace and conflict studies. Even though it is often accepted ...

This book examines the role of terrorist innovation and learning in theory and practice, and in the context of three specific EU case-studies.It is...

Despite the bitter conflict that divided Jerusalem and Damascus, a fascinating process of indirect – through the United States – and tacit understa...

In the waning years of the Cold War, the United States and China began to cautiously engage in cultural, educational, and policy exchanges, which i...

This edited book provides an interdisciplinary overview of recent scholarship in the field of genocide studies. The book examines four main areas: ...

This book examines traditional balance of power theory from a political-economic perspective, using historical examples, to draw out distinctions b...

This book investigates competing modes of thought about gender security and aims to understand the policy implications of personal-political imagin...

This book examines the major security and related issues between the United States, Japan and North Korea (officially, the Democratic People’s Repu...